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BOOK REVIEW 24 May 2022 Correction 29 June 2022 Santiago Ramón y Cajal: art, politics and neuroscience revolution A biography charts the rise of the father of modern neuroscience. By Alison

Abbott0 Alison Abbott Alison Abbott covered neuroscience, and much else, for decades as Nature’s Senior European Correspondent. She is based in Munich, Germany.

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Twitter Facebook Email Access through your institution Buy or subscribe The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron Benjamin Ehrlich Farrar, Straus and

Giroux (2022)

Nature 605, 613-614 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01389-5

Updates & Corrections Correction 29 June 2022: An earlier version of this review criticized the book for not including any of Cajal’s drawings. In fact, the drawings were included in the

printed version of the book. The sentence has now been removed.

The author declares no competing interests.

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